Bazaar Internship

Spend five intensive weekends of your summer raising awareness about indigenous rights, cultures, and concerns by staffing and promoting Cultural Survival’s traveling Bazaars. Meet fascinating people from around the globe while you learn about fair trade principles, polish your public relations skills, and practice your activism, all in beautiful settings throughout New England.

Bazaar interns and volunteers will perform a variety tasks leading up to and during Bazaar events. Responsibilities may include stuffing envelopes, aiding in fax/media blasts, outdoor canvassing, event set-up and breakdown, event security, and vendor relations. Tasks involve varying degrees of physical labor. For interns, it is requirement to work all five weekends. We will accept a limited number of volunteers to work one or two weekends.

Summer Bazaar Sites 2008:

May 31 - June 1	Amherst, MA
June 21	Boston Common, Boston, MA
July 5-6	Kripalu-Stockbridge, MA
July 19-20	Newburyport, MA
July 26-27	Tiverton, RI
August 9-10	Provincetown, MA

Cultural Survival provides food and lodging (mostly camping) during the five weekends for the intern crew of approximately 16. Interns who have their own vehicles and are willing to travel (with gas compensation) are encouraged to apply. Applicants must have a desire to learn about and advance the work of Cultural Survival. Event coordination experience is helpful, but high energy and a positive attitude is a must!

Bazaar intern and volunteer positions will begin May 28, 2008. For more information about Cultural Survival Bazaars, see the Cultural Survival Web site: http://www.cs.org/events/bazaar/index.cfm

To Apply:
Send in one MS Word or PDF document a cover letter and resume to internship@cs.org. In your cover letter, describe your goals for the internship and how you are fit to represent Cultural Survival at our bazaars. Please number your pages and include your name at the top of each. Intern positions are unpaid.